MEDICAL ASSOCIATION URGES EPA TO STRENGTHEN FINE PARTICULATE RULE

April 21, 2006
The American Medical Association (AMA) is joining a host of environmental and public health groups in calling on EPA to strengthen its proposed new fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air quality standard, an unusual move by an organization that has generally stayed out of air quality debates. Environmentalists who support stricter standards are pointing to recent AMA comments on the PM2.5 standard as important backing for their call for EPA to tighten it. The agency has already faced controversy for rejecting...


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